Desire Can't Be Hidden

[So sorry to have kept you waiting. I had to put this on hold for a long time because of real-life matters. I'll return to updating it after I finish the other novel.]

She saw him again at a private club on the outskirts of the capital.

In a smoky private room, he sat farther inside. Light and shadow fell across his face. Amid the laughter and revelry, he seemed both immersed in it and apart from it, a faint, inscrutable smile always lingering in his eyes.

Someone stepped forward to light the cigarette between his lips, and he turned his face slightly.

For one brief moment, the scene froze in Zou Han's vision, hazy and indistinct.

She clearly heard someone call him "Xusheng."

Xusheng.

His name was Qin Fangxu.

That night began with an excuse she'd deliberately made up.

The hallway was dim, making the light spilling through the crack in the door all the more noticeable. The biting chill made her shiver.

The girl paused, then glanced into his room and asked tentatively,

"Is it okay if I come in?"

The man leaned against the doorframe. As he lowered his eyes to look at her, his gaze held a shadowy, indefinable quality.

After a few seconds of silence, he shifted to one side and invited her in gently. "It's cold out. Come in and sit for a while?"

Theme: To love with all your heart.